op asked for a running x79 solution and i offered him mine.
@jcschild
yes it's sad that intel seems immense unsupportive,i guess it was luck that some people at the intel forum kicked intel a bit
and i can say that chris,which i believe is one of the developers actively responded to the topics and solved the issues.yes,very helpful and a bit uncommon.
also,now i remember,i had a issue (beside the usb 3 blue screens),i needed to raise the voltage for my cpu using the default bios to get the computer stable when idle,sometimes i got bluescreens.
some tough days but other users didn't mentioned this problem then in my conclusion it could be the ram i use.
intel wrote support for 1333/1600/1866 and 2100 mhz ram.
i did call intel and they suggest me to use the ram recommended from them.
it was a bit of a difficult situation i only found outdated dimms,some of them weren't available anymore let alone no single x79 quad set was mentioned.
i already bought the 1866 kingston quad ram (for x79 systems) and i could not do any test whatsoever because the board and the cpu wasn't even on the market.
you mentioned using 1.35v ram but those 1866 mhz dimms are running with 1.6v when overclocked,the default is 1.5v.
some days later i accidentally found those overclocking profiles in the bios,the "funny" thing was..that's exactly what i wanted to do,overclocking to 4ghz or more but also with energy saving.
i need not to mention that i completely failed to overclock this system manually.
however,it's somehow a fnordly situation.
who knows that intel did a fantastic job with those profiles?
it works so absolutely beautifully i would not praise it like this if it weren't true.
not a single crackle when going from 1500mhz to 4ghz (cpu is using 1.25v and you can always use the energy options for a constant overclocking value),although i had a stutter once using a single instance of iris but nothing else.
iris does the processing when the key is pressed and this can be quite hard.
yes,today i would buy the 1600 mhz version.
however,this configuration works but it's sad that you need to find a needle in a haystack.
i want to mention that i have several fans installed,so it's maybe not a silent solution,my computer is also in another room.
although it seems with this configuration it is fairly possible to get it quiet.
but then it is a sandy bridge-e system and it was never written that this wont heat up when driven.
maybe that's the reason people do not recommend them.
anyway,for music purposes myself try to balance the cpu,i don't like to go over 70% load,a cool cpu performs faster and overall better (for music).
i even wont go far about 50% load and honestly i don't need it because it's a nice cpu that can handle a lot,lets see.
my temps a fairly low,highest was 55º celsius (90% cpu for video rendering) but normally it is around 40º,ram and other components are cool as well.
..but this is going to deep i think.
@Kaine
intel want to stay out of competition,the ram issues are hilarious,i completely agree with you.
although,it's not that other brands do not have it's issues and it is always recommend to do a search to find a good ram for a board.
